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Taking Action for Urban Nature - Innovation Pathways Directory

What are the enabling conditions and driving forces for nature-based solutions in the context of urban sustainability transitions? And how do innovation pathways play a role for nature-based solutions? Innovation pathways are a journey: from the initial idea and its demonstration, to its broader

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EPIC WebGIS Portugal

EPIC WebGIS is an interactive spatial data infrastructure, which provides georeferenced cartography at a national scale, using data visualization tools.

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Ecometrica Platform

The Ecometrica Platform brings together sustainability, environment, risk and business management with geospatial intelligence and mapping applications to allow businesses, governments and organisations to make smarter decisions and build long-term value. The Platform is arranged into four

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Defining and assessing success in mainstreaming

This background paper draws on reviews of the mainstreaming targets and indicators of selected NBSAPs from countries at different stages of their mainstreaming process, and the approaches to assessing the success of mainstreaming biodiversity and other issues into development. Recommendations are

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Georgian Biodiversity Database

This internet resource aims to introduce the world-wide scientific (and not only scientific) community to the biological diversity of Georgia (and, to certain extent, the Caucasus ecoregion).

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Nature-based Solutions in Action: Lessons from the Frontline

The 13 case studies in this report have been contributed by environment, development and local community organisations. They show NbS in action in a wide range of contexts, from a Farmers’ Seed Network in China that supports agroecology by conserving traditional seeds, to large-scale watershed

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LANDPREF - Interactive tool to assess and visualise land use preferences

LANDPREF is a novel tool to assess desired land use visions. It enables the adjustment of a virtual landscape according to personal preferences of competing land uses, and is an interactive tool for the survey-based assessment of land use preferences. It allows the respondents to interactively

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The Common Agricultural Policy can strengthen biodiversity and ecosystem services by diversifying agricultural landscapes

“The Common Agricultural Policy can strengthen biodiversity and ecosystem services by diversifying agricultural landscapes” is based on the combined results of the FARMLAND, APPEAL, CONNECT, EC21C and ECODEAL projects, funded by BiodivERsA and FACCE-JPI. This 4-page brief presents key

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Urban resilience and sustainability - URBES Factsheet #5

This factsheet explains the importance of understanding the relationship between people and nature in urban planning and decision making in order to achieve urban resilience and sustainability.

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Providing contact with nature for young generation - A case study of preschools in the City of Poznań, Poland

Contact with nature is valuable for the health, wellbeing and development of children. Meanwhile, the urban environment and the contemporary urban lifestyle limit the opportunity for contact with nature. Given that children aged three to six years spend a significant amount of time in preschool, we

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Hedonic property pricing

Mitigation cost-based valuation methods are a group of valuation methods that use the cost of actual measures to maintain ecosystem service provision as a proxy for the value of avoiding, mitigating or restoring the loss of services ecosystems provide.

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Green infrastructure within agricultural landscapes strengthens the supply of ecosystem services

The brief on “Green infrastructure within agricultural landscapes strengthens the supply of ecosystem services” presents how the results from the EC21C, FarmLand, ECODEAL, APPEAL, SmallFOREST and CONNECT projects. It provides evidence that increasing landscape diversity through green infrastructure

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  • Guidance

NbS Selection Tool

The Urban GreenUP ‘NbS Selection Tool’ has been designed to help local governments choose from the many NbS options in our NbS catalogue. This tool is a decision support tool – it’s designed to give suggestions that may help improve you choose the right NbS for you, based on both your city’s

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Guía para la Implementación de SbN en Quito

The application of NbS requires the involvement of a wide range of city agents: the policy makers, NGOs and residents They must be accompanied and involved along the way towards a greener city. We can not afford dispense with all existing local knowledge in our local communities. At the same time,

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Presentation on Reducing Disaster Risk through Restoration

This powerpoint slide provides a case study on a successful example of nature-based solution applied for disaster risk reduction: the Restoration of the Isar River in Germany. The initiative was implemented under the PHUSICOS project. More information on the case study is also available below.

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Mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions: Economic Regeneration

This report specifically addresses the mainstreaming of urban nature-based solutions for economic regeneration. We understand economic regeneration to be about the improvement and reinvigoration of urban areas. Nature-based solutions have the potential to encourage economic regeneration through

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PSS Toolkit

Workshop facilitation toolkit for the generation of business ideas/models linked to product service systems at the scale of urban agglomerations.

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PHUSICOS - Caídas de bloques en Artouste

The hazard at Artouste is caused by rockfalls, both from exposed rock ledges and from loose blocks sitting on the surface of the till on the steep slope. The site is adjacent to the Artouste hydroelectric dam, where the RD-934 road descends from the level of the dam to its base. The slope is steep

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GIZ ValuES - Method Profile: Participatory mapping

Contrary to other mapping tools, participatory mapping does not primarily draw on statistics or research data, but on the practical knowledge of people. Participatory mapping visualizes local knowledge and makes it visible to all. There are several participatory mapping tools available. In an

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Transition Towards Sustainable and Liveable Urban Futures – JPI Urban Europe Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda

Strategic Research and Innovation agenda (SRIA) Launched in 2015, the SRIA describes the long-term strategy and programme for JPI Urban Europe’s from 2015 – 2020. The SRIA responds to the urgent need for ambitious, sustained and truly inter- and transdisciplinary research to radically improve

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